I'm Quitting Cigarettes: Challenge Me

[D_Bag]

I quit about four years ago after smoking for 15 years. I used the patch and probably tripled up on the weed.

 

[bolophonic]

I was never a dedicated smoker, but I indulged intermittently for years. I always wondered what the big deal was until I hit a series of personal disasters that included dating a heavy smoker and wound up suddenly hooked on cigarettes at age 35. After one year of heavy smoking, I was so relieved to catch the flu and use that recovery time to detox and break the habit. That was almost ten years ago. You can do it. Don't even take a puff, or your brain will revert right back.

 

[DiabolusInMusic]

I still vape very occasionally but nothing like when I first started vaping. I used to go through two batteries a day where now a battery lasts me me two to three days. Like you said, old habits die hard.

I actually bought a vape long after I had stopped. I got it with a bunch of 0% juice just so I could hang out and smoke in my basement. I used it for a few months before I accepted that while vaping is better than smoking it is not better than not smoking.

 

[twinjet]

Those bands have bass players? Are you SURE?
I can't hear any bass....



Oh and they have written songs together?,
Or did you mean Imagine Dragons?

I might be wrong. Could be Herman Li's sound enhancement pedal.

 

[TOOL460002]

If you quit I'll quit.

 

[sissy kathy]

Be prepared, just when you think you've got it licked, you'll start having dreams. They'll last about a week.

 

[Son of Wobble]

Like Mark Twain, I found quitting tobacco so easy that I did it a thousand times. I did the math and calculated that I have smoked over a quarter million cigarettes. That is a lot of special moments!

My dad and my late uncle both needed a vaccum job to clear their carotid arteries of blockages due to smoking. It is bad for you in many ways. The sooner you quit the better. The key to staying off as observed above is to never suffer a single exception.

Watch out for smoking pot in Europe where it us rolled with tobacco - I have gotten readdicted many times due to that error in judgement. No exceptions! And remember what my ex junkie pal told me, kicking cigs was harder than smack.

 

[PortlandBass77]

I started smoking at around 15 and quit around 30. There's nothing special you can do to take your mind off it. You'll realize that once you try stuff like you're looking for. You just have to accept how much it's gonna suck and live with it.

There is actually, I have a friend who had smoked for 5 years and was offered $500 by her boyfriend to quit smoking, she was done within a week. Money motivates, I don't have any so I can't help the OP unfortunately....

 

[Immigrant]

I started smoking in the womb, then stopped for awhile, then resumed again wheni was 13. Forty years later, I started vaping by jailbreaking gas station ecigs and refilling them. Two weeks of that and I was inadvertently detoxed and down to practically no nicotine. I now vape a real ecig with medium strength juice. I don't reach for it first thing like I did with cigs, so I know my addiction is still less than it was.

I had resigned myself long ago to the fact that I LOVED smoking and would probably never quit, so vaping is a good bridge for me right now.